حدقه

See also: حدقة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَدَقَة (ḥadaqa, “pupil”).

Noun

حدقه • (hadeka) (plural احداق (ahdak))

1. pupil, the hole in the middle of the iris of the eye

   Synonyms: گوز ببكی (göz bebeği), مردمك (merdümek)

2. bullseye, the centre of a target, inside the inner and the magpie

Derived terms

• حدقی (hadekî, “pupillar”)

Descendants

• Turkish: hadeka

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hadeka”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1831
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حدقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 499
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Pupilla”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1409
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حدقه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1734
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حدقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 770